Word: epitaphed
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...lost viewers and sponsors, was losing money for NBC. In June, after its 665th hour-long program, the show will fade out for the last time. Likeliest replacement: a soap opera or two. Already dreaming up ten new projects for NBC, Producer Albert McCleery, 46, was ready with an epitaph: "I've been very lucky. I've been running what amounts to a national theater, the busiest one anywhere...
...something, he prayed for it, and then made his prayer known to impressionable people who were glad to oblige. Soon, God's overdraft was alarming, as Mr. Huntington had put on his tab "a country house, a well-stocked farm, a coach." Huntington died leaving a self-written epitaph which ended...
...made much concerted effort to study the West as an entity. However, the West has not yet enough perspective on its past to be able to understand the present. The West is more than the "Howdy Country" that S. Omar Barker calls it, just as it deserves a better epitaph than the opening of this book, "They know the West lives on . . . in men wind over its prairies and the sunshine on its shores." The West deserves a more articulate voice to tell of its differences from the rest of America...
...some other Baconians, Shakespeare's epitaph was the source of all sorts of speculation. Using Bacon's cipher, one man translated the inscription to read SAEHR/BAYEEP/RFTAXA/RAWAR, crossed out the letters S-H-A-X-P-E-A-R-E, and by rearranging the remaining letters got FRA BAWRT EAR AY (i.e., "Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays"). Another investigator made each capital in the inscription stand for one, and, after counting the number of letters between them, produced...
...failure to meet "the basic commitments of citizenship" in its worsening relations with the Negro, the white South could only invite what Ashmore regards as the equal evil of enforced integration. He has pushed that premise in two books, The Negro and the Schools (1954) and his upcoming An Epitaph for Dixie, and in Democratic party politics, which he entered as civil-rights adviser to Adlai Stevenson in 1956. ("How many Democratic editors were there available?" he asks...